top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-27

Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/35293

6 years ago

Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

https://unim.press/#dataisbeautiful

6 years ago

Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, and kids

https://palm.com/pages/product

6 years ago

Xi-Editor Retrospective

https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.html

6 years ago

How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)

https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/27/how-does-sqlite-work-part-1-pages/

6 years ago

Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN23X2TN

6 years ago

Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave

https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive

6 years ago

Show HN: Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor

https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/rainbow/

6 years ago

Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown

http://news.mit.edu/2020/astronomers-rhythm-radio-waves-0617

6 years ago

Milton Glaser, designer of ‘I ♥ NY’ logo, has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/milton-glaser-dead.html

6 years ago

Examining ARM vs. x86 Memory Models with Rust

https://www.nickwilcox.com/blog/arm_vs_x86_memory_model/

6 years ago

24a2: An ultra-minimalist game engine

https://github.com/jamesroutley/24a2

6 years ago

Stop Firing the Innocent

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/

6 years ago

Cache Oblivious Algorithms

https://jiahai-feng.github.io/posts/cache-oblivious-algorithms/

6 years ago

It's time to take alternatives to dark matter seriously

https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-time-to-take-alternatives-to-dark-matter-seriously

6 years ago

Cryengine Source Code

https://github.com/CRYTEK/CRYENGINE/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Has anyone fixed their own bruxism?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23665164

6 years ago

FreeDVDBoot – Hacking the Playstation 2 through its DVD player

https://cturt.github.io/freedvdboot.html

6 years ago

Update on IT Security Incident at UCSF

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417911/update-it-security-incident-ucsf

6 years ago

DeepMind AI reading list [pdf]

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/research/New_AtHomeWithAI%20resources.pdf

6 years ago

GNU GCC does not round floating-point divisions to the nearest value

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/06/26/gcc-not-nearest/

6 years ago

How to Learn JavaScript

https://sivers.org/learn-js

6 years ago

Microfinance Is Mostly a Scam (2015)

https://mathbabe.org/2015/10/13/microfinance-is-mostly-a-scam/

6 years ago

Tons of microplastic rain onto western US

https://earthsky.org/earth/microplastic-rain-western-us

6 years ago

Policing the Internet: A Bad Idea in 1996 and Today

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/25/policing_the_internet_a_bad_idea_in_1996_--_and_today.html

6 years ago

Using Zig to provide stack traces on kernel panic on bare metal (2018)

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-stack-traces-kernel-panic-bare-bones-os.html

6 years ago

Seeing Theory (2017)

https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/

6 years ago

Wirecard Scandal Puts Spotlight on Auditor Ernst and Young

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wirecard-scandal-puts-spotlight-on-auditor-ernst-young-11593262823

6 years ago

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed

https://ubuntu.com/blog/dell-xps-13-developer-edition-with-ubuntu-20-04-lts-pre-installed-is-now-available

6 years ago

Werner Herzog: ‘Film-making is always some sort of risk-taking’

https://www.ft.com/content/9979bfb8-b5fa-11ea-8ecb-0994e384dffe

6 years ago

Building a high performance JSON parser

https://dave.cheney.net/high-performance-json.html

6 years ago

Take control over your feeds to regain mindfulness

https://solmaz.io/thoughts/digital-hygiene-feeds/

6 years ago

Show HN: Global sailing navigation simulator using real weather/ocean data

https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/

6 years ago

Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration

https://retrohax.net/commodore-sx-64-keyboard-restoration/

6 years ago

Show HN: GIF Directions

https://gif.direct

6 years ago

The FDA's perpetual process machine

https://paulromer.net/fda_perpetual_process_machine/

6 years ago

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (1991)

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

6 years ago

Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language

https://wren.io/

6 years ago

Die shrink: How Intel scaled down the 8086 processor

http://www.righto.com/2020/06/die-shrink-how-intel-scaled-down-8086.html

6 years ago

Whistleblower provides blocking orders for over 4000 websites in India

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/hgnosd/whistleblower_provides_blocking_orders_for_over/

6 years ago

Personal OKRs for Success

https://mohitkhare.me/blog/personal-okrs/

6 years ago

Real VT102 Emulation with MAME

https://zork.net/~st/jottings/Real-VT102-emulation-with-MAME.html

6 years ago

“Loss of smell” Google search now trending in West Virginia, Nebraska, Nevada

https://mobile.twitter.com/teroterotero/status/1276966591972900865?s=09

6 years ago

Satellites reveal major new gas industry methane leaks

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-methane-satellites-insi-idUSKBN23W3K4

6 years ago

Not new news, but tbh if you have tiktiok, just get rid of it – videos

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/comment/fmuko1m

6 years ago

Let's use more of Firefox, only YOU can stop Chrome from becoming the next IE

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23658417

6 years ago

NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 2: Getting Software

https://blog.pizzabox.computer/posts/hp712-nextstep-part-2/

6 years ago

Goldman Sachs Created a Font, but You're Forbidden by Its License to Critique GS

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200625/11063644781/goldman-sachs-created-font-you-are-forbidden-license-to-critique-goldman-sachs-using-it.shtml

6 years ago

HonKit: A Fork of GitBook

https://github.com/honkit/honkit

6 years ago

The economics of a VIP party

https://www.1843magazine.com/1843/the-economics-of-fun/the-secret-economics-of-a-vip-party

6 years ago

Pico-8: Enabling more than 16 colors on the screen

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=38565

6 years ago

Patient 91: How Vietnam saved a British pilot and kept a clean Covid-19 sheet

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53196009

6 years ago

Dolphins learn from their peers to use empty shells to catch fish

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30756-9

6 years ago

The Great Pause Was an Economic Revolution

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/22/the-great-pause-was-an-economic-revolution%e2%80%a8/

6 years ago